Communist Party of Norway

The Communist Party of Norway (NKP) is a communist political party in Norway that was founded on 4 November 1923. The party formed as the result of a split within the socialist Norwegian Labor Party, and it supported Stalinism and the Soviet Union from the start, opposing Trotskyism. During World War II, the party initially opposed active resistance against Nazi Germany due to its Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with the USSR, but it began to play an active role in the resistance after the Germans invaded the USSR in 1941. After the war's end, the NKP enjoyed a brief period of popularity, but the start of the Cold War led to the NKP declining in popularity. It held parliamentary representation as late as 1961, but it would later evolve into a pro-Russian party that opposed the European Union, NATO, and the United States.